2. Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices Intentional Mixing of the Stylistic Aspect of Words Interaction of Different Types of Lexical Meaning Intensification of a Certain Feature of a Thing or Phenomenon Peculiar Use of Set Expressions

3. Interaction of Different Types of Lexical Meaning INTERACTION OF PRIMARY DICTIONARY AND CONTEXTUALLY IMPOSED MEANINGS INTERACTION OF PRIMARY AND DERIVATIVE LOGICAL MEANINGS INTERACTION OF LOGICAL AND EMOTIVE MEANINGS INTERACTION OF LOGICAL AND NOMINAL MEANINGS

4.  Metaphor She has a heart of gold.

5.  Metonymy The hall applauded. He writes a fine hand.

6.  Irony She turned with the sweet smile of an alligator.

7.  Zeugma She lost her bag and mind.

8.  Pun What is the difference between a schoolmaster and an engine-driver? (One trains the mind and the other minds the train.)

9.  The Epithet He was look-before-you-leap sort of man. a devil of a job

10.  Interjections and Exclamatory Words Pooh! Тьфу! Уф! фу! Gosh! Черт возьми! О черт! Hush! Тише! Тс! Цыц!

11.  Oxymoron the crowded loneliness of the barracks – тесное одиночество казарм

12.  Antonomasia The Iron Lady -Железная леди Casanova- Казанова Mr. All-Know- Мистер всезнающий

14. as light as a feather -легкий как перо- very light as weak as a kitten -слабый как котенок- very weak as white as a sheet - бледный как простыня- very pale, white as old as the hills - старый как холмы- very old as cool as a cucumber - спокойный как огурец- very cool

15. Green eyed monster – ревность My better half – супруг The ship of the desert (camel) Negro (black)

16. Определение «толстый» (Fat) заменяется на «с избыточным весом» (overweight) Более уместным будет не называть человека «старым» (old), а лучше сказать «в годах» (advanced in years)

17. I am so hungry I could eat a horse. I have a million things to do. I had to walk 15 miles to school in the snow, uphill. I had a ton of homework. Her brain is the size of a pea.

19. 'rosy dreams of youth' 'the patter of little feet' 'deceptively simple'

20. Good things come to those who wait. A poor workman blames his tools. A dog is a man's best friend. If the shoe fits, wear it!

21. John Donne uses an epigram in his poem "Hero and Leander" when he writes: "Both robb'd of air, we both lie in one groundBoth whom one fire had burnt, one water drown'd."

22. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

23. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

24. “When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary.” Scrooge was an extremely stingy character from Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol.

25. “I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.” This refers to the story of Pinocchio, where his nose grew whenever he told a lie. It is from The Adventures of Pinocchio, written by Carlo Collodi.

26. "Mind! I don't mean to say that I know of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it or ' the Country's done for. You will, therefore, permit me to repeat emphatically that Marley was as dead as a door-nail." (Dickens)

27.  Bathos The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.